Dr. Vikas Gupta

Faculty - IIP Academy
Vikas Gupta is a artist, photographer and academic based out of New Delhi. His practice is broadly concerned with living culture of land, vision and social sciences. His photographs investigate the aesthetic and societal norms through conceptions of time, memory and place, specifically in cultures where loss is a substantial part of daily life. His work addresses the lived experience of conflict and trauma. He engages widely with histories and archives, both real and imagined, to explore the tensions between personal and systematic forms of knowledge.

He holds a Ph.D Fine Art in Painting on Research Fellowship from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra and received M.A Fine Arts in Painting from the same University. His education in visual arts helps him to pursue photography more holistically and medium specific. He usually practice in film based media and Alternative Photographic processes, specifically Wet Plate Collodion, Ambrotype, Tintype, Albumen Print, Gum Biochromate and Cyanotype. Vikas works predominantly in both of the medium - painting and photography as well, but his work in photography comprised of portraiture, personal narrative and found photographs

Vikas Gupta has been the recipient of the Neel Dongre Grant/Award for Excellence in Photography 2016-17 for his project “An Aura of Analog Age”, from India Photo Archive Foundation. He has been selected for the Art Residency Program in New Media Arts ‘Breaking Stereotype’ at Contemporary Art Gallery, Kurukshetra in 2011 & 2012. His work has been exhibited in various galleries across India. His work “To Tibet with Love” has also been selected for the Long Term Project Ambulance Workshop with Lars Willumeit and Salvatore Vitale at Photo Kathmandu, 2016. Photo book Making Workshop with Yumi Gotto and Mariella Sancari at Jaipur Photo Festival, 2017. At present he is working with ‘Indian Institute of Photography’ as a faculty.